Date Signed: January 2026
Label: Fearless Records
Members: Nathanael Pulley, vocals; Ben Koehler, guitar; Grayson Mesarosh, drums
Type of Music: Rock
Management: Scott Sheldon and Ben Bruce, RM 64
Booking: Imran Xhelili - ixhelili@independentartistgroup.com
Publicity: Amy Sciarretto and Tori Kravitz, Atom Splitter PR - tori@atomsplitterpr.com
Web: archersband.com
There’s a particular kind of musician who doesn’t choose music so much as get chosen by it. Nathanael Pulley, vocalist of metalcore outfit Archers, is of that kind.
“Deep down, I always knew that for me, it was this or nothing,” he says, and he means it without any of the melodrama you’d expect. Just a kid in a church choir who grew up, discovered bands, and never once entertained an alternative reality. “I never had that ‘Ah hah!’ moment,” Pulley says. “For me, making music was just my baseline.”
That baseline, built on years in the DIY trenches, has now earned Archers a deal with Fearless Records—and a label debut single called “The Dirt” that asks the age-old question: If I get everything I want, will it be enough?
“All of us, after so long in the DIY scene, have felt real burnout over the years,” he says. “The Dirt,” produced by Erik Ron, grew out of that exhaustion—a record made, fittingly, from scratch. “We’d gone to him with a blank slate and just a few inklings of ideas of where to go.”
What emerged is the sound of a band that refuses to be pinned down. Ask Pulley to describe Archers’ genre and he’ll give you an answer, then immediately undermine it. “Metalcore is what I tell people,” he says. “But honestly, we just used the sounds and styles that speak to us in the moment. Our music will always be evolving and growing because, if you do life right, we as people are always evolving and growing.” He calls himself “pretty genre blind,” which in 2026 is less a cop-out than a survival skill.
The Fearless deal, for its part, came together without the chaos you might romanticize. “We’d been shopping some new demos around to see if anyone was interested in helping us make a record,” Pulley explains. “Fearless and a few others showed some real interest, but ultimately we went with Fearless because they seemed to really understand our vision and goals.”
Clean. Decisive. Very Archers, apparently.
But the real story—the one that threads through everything Pulley says—isn’t about the deal or the record or even the songs. It’s about the moment he stopped white-knuckling the whole thing.
“I used to hold onto this band with a death grip,” he says. “It was synonymous with my life and happiness. It wasn’t until I learned to let it all go that the good things started to come together.”
Which is, if you think about it, exactly the kind of thing a guy who just got signed should say—and somehow still sounds like he means it.
Archers hit festival stages this summer at Welcome To Rockville, Louder Than Life, and Inkarceration. New music is in the works.
